Welcome! 
I'm Katie.

Oh grants? Really!?

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Yep, really. A decade+ in the nonprofit sector has taught me that grant-based fundraising lies at the intersection of my strengths and interests. These include:

 

A love of writing.

Providing clients with clear, concise narratives that blend engaging anecdotes with relevant data is my jam. 

 

A desire for knowledge.

As someone who's always read voraciously (I've never met a brochure I didn't like!), I can attest my love of research and information is not new. Keeping your narratives fresh and engaging through regular research is something I genuinely enjoy.

 

A strategic mind.

Once described as the "Mary Poppins of grants," I'm here to help you untangle, bring order, and create beautiful, actionable systems. I also relish helping create overall grant strategy and goals through historic data analysis and thoughtful pairing of your nonprofit's needs with the interests of the funding community. 

 

Discipline.

Full credit to StrengthFinder for helping me succinctly articulate this one. Those aforementioned tools? You better believe we are going to execute on them. Every. Single. Time.

 

Five years of nonprofit management consulting in Dallas (in both fundraising and strategy) gave me a love for the variety and the potential for impact in client work. After a few years as part of the fundraising team at The DoSeum, I saw a need for my skillset in the broader San Antonio nonprofit community, and Spark Storytelling was born! 

 

I've raised more than $5 million dollars in the 4 years I've been dedicated to grant fundraising. Learning about the visions of smart, passionate people, and helping them realize those visions by securing the necessary funding, is my passion and joy.